But in any case you may want to shoot snakes and the wonderfully beautiful birds which you will see in the bush.

A gun is a necessity for a settler, and so are those." She pointed to a parcel on a side table.
"Fetch those here, and open the paper." Nic fetched the strongly done-up packet, opened it with trembling fingers, and laid bare a beautifully finished axe and a sheath knife of the finest steel, with stout buckhorn handle and leathern belt.
"Not drawing-room presents, my boy," said the lady, smiling, "but suitable for a young settler.

There, you can squeeze those in your portmanteau; the gun you can have when we get over the sea." "But, Lady O'Hara!" faltered Nic; "the gun--such an expensive one." "Of course it is.

Who'd buy cheap rubbish to take abroad?
You want the plainest and the best that money can buy." "Yes, but I meant--" "That they were too costly to accept?
Not a bit, my boy.

We owe your father a deep debt.